"Top blog/Renato Obeid's World/Today's pick: This rambling weblog is worth reading not so much for its satirical posts but more for its insight into the minutiae of life in Lebanon, including the etiquette of road accidents and how to hire a taxi.”-Jane Perrone, The Guardian

Coming back from the pub quiz at about 3.00am, I caught a service into Jounieh.The driver, a young man from Tripoli, was one of my regulars.Seated in the front alongside him was a friend or relative and the back seat was spilling over with little brothers or cousins obviously taking advantage of tomorrow’s holiday by cruising around in a service all night!The boy sitting immediately next to me asked me, about the driver, “how do you know him, is he you’re friend?”I replied, “yes he is and so are you”.That seemed to please him.